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Feb 03, 2017

Calculate the pH at the equivalence point for the titration of 0.20 M ##"HCl"## with 0.20 M ##"NH"_3##? ##K_b = 1.8 xx 10^(–5)##

##"pH" = 5.13##

You're titrating ammonia, ##"NH"_3##, a weak base, with hydrochloric acid, ##"HCl"##, a strong acid, so right from the start you should know that the at the equivalence point is lower than ##7##.

That happens because the produces ammonium cations, ##"NH"_4^(+)##, the conjugate acid of ammonia.

The reaction looks like this

##"HCl"_ ((aq)) + "NH"_ (3(aq)) -> "NH"_ 4"Cl"_ ((aq))##

As you can see, ammonia and hydrochloric acid react in a ##1:1## , which implies that at the equivalence point, the reaction consumed equal numbers of moles of ammonia and of hydrochloric acid.

Now, the problem doesn't provide you with the volumes of the two , but you know for a fact that they must be equal because the solutions have the same .

The thing to remember here si that you don't need the volumes of the two solutions, all you have to do is keep track of the fact that they are equal.

Let's assume that the volume of the solutions is ##V## liters. According to the balanced chemical equation, the reaction consumes ##1## mole of hydrochloric acid and ##1## mole of ammonia to produce ##1## mole of aqueous ammonium chloride.

So, the reaction consumes ##(0.20 * V)## moles of hydrochloric acid and ammonia, which can only mean that it produced ##(0.20 * V)## moles of ammonium chloride, i.e. of ammonium cations, ##"NH"_4^(+)##.

The volume of the resulting solution is now

##V_"final" = V" L" + V" L" = 2V" L"##

The concentration of ammonium cations in the resulting solution will be